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* '''Played For Horror''': Alice's encounters with the supernatural are revealed [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness to have been delusional]]. With heavy implications that [[TheKillerInsideMe the murderer she is pursuing is actually herself while under a psychotic episode.]]
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* '''Played For Horror''': Alice's encounters with the supernatural are revealed [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness to have been delusional]]. With heavy implications that [[TheKillerInsideMe [[TheKillerInMe the murderer she is pursuing is actually herself while under a psychotic episode.]]
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* '''Subverted''': Eileen shows that the mirrors would reflected strange patterns that would have looked ghostly in the room. But when the windows that were the light sources are covered up, the strange lights still appear.
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* '''Subverted''': '''Subverted''':
** Eileen shows that the mirrors would reflected strange patterns that would have looked ghostly in the room. But when the windows that were the light sources are covered up, the strange lights stillappear.appear.
** The explanation turns out to be a lie to uphold TheMasquerade.
** Eileen shows that the mirrors would reflected strange patterns that would have looked ghostly in the room. But when the windows that were the light sources are covered up, the strange lights still
** The explanation turns out to be a lie to uphold TheMasquerade.
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** Daniel's abilities were explained as nanomachines and not magic, simply a strain of rogue GreyGoo and Ice-9. Except [[ScienceMarchesOn real life discredits them]]. Antimagic fields later disrupt them. It is stated that nanomachines don't work on the actual principles suspected but actually involve unwittingly stumbling upon SufficentlyAdvancedTechnology which meddles with the same forces as magic. Both mages and current scientists are described as partially right but hopelessly wrong when it comes to understanding the whole.
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** Daniel's abilities were explained as nanomachines and not magic, simply a strain of rogue GreyGoo and Ice-9. Except [[ScienceMarchesOn real life discredits them]]. Antimagic fields later disrupt them. It is stated that nanomachines don't work on the actual principles suspected but actually involve unwittingly stumbling upon SufficentlyAdvancedTechnology symbolic magic. Except later technology is found [[ClarkesThirdLaw which meddles with the same forces as magic. magic.]] Both mages and current scientists are described as partially right but hopelessly wrong when it comes to understanding the whole.
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* '''Played For Laughs''': Hiro the MilesGloriosus has his magic related exploits explained in ways that reveal him to be a deluded and depraved loser. The "mermaid" he slept with? [[BestialityIsDepraved Turns out she was a manatee]]. The dryad was him getting [[MushroomSamba stoned and humping a tree]].
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* '''Played For Laughs''': Hiro the MilesGloriosus has his magic related exploits explained in ways that reveal him to be a deluded and depraved loser. The "mermaid" he slept with? [[BestialityIsDepraved Turns out she was a manatee]]. The dryad he slept with similarly was him getting just a tree [[MushroomSamba he humped while stoned and humping a tree]].out of his gourd.]]
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** Daniel's abilities were explained as nanomachines and not magic, simply a strain of rogue GreyGoo and Ice-9. Except [[ScienceMarchesOn real life discredits them]]. Antimagic fields later disrupt them. It is stated that nanomachines don't work on the actual principles suspected but actually involve unwittingly stumbling upon SufficentlyAdvancedTechnology which meddles with the same forces as magic. Both mages and current scientists are described as partially right but hopelessly wrong when it comes to understanding the whole.
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* '''Played For Laughs''': Hiro the MilesGloriosus has his magic related exploits explained in ways that reveal him to be a deluded and depraved loser. The "mermaid" he slept with? [[BestialityIsDepraved Turns out she was a manatee]]. The dryad was him getting [[MushroomSamba stoned and humping a tree]].
* '''Played For Horror''': Alice's encounters with the supernatural are revealed [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness to have been delusional]]. With heavy implications that [[TheKillerInsideMe the murderer she is pursuing is actually herself while under a psychotic episode.]]
* '''Played For Horror''': Alice's encounters with the supernatural are revealed [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness to have been delusional]]. With heavy implications that [[TheKillerInsideMe the murderer she is pursuing is actually herself while under a psychotic episode.]]
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'''Basic Trope''': A "magical" incident is retroactively explained as not being magic
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'''Basic Trope''': A "magical" incident is retroactively explained as not being magicmagic.
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Back to DoingInTheWizardDoingInTheWizard.
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* '''Invoked''': ???
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* '''Invoked''': ???Agnes seeks out mystical incidents to prove they are hoaxes.
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* '''Justified''': ???
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* '''Justified''': ???Anything that we don't yet know the true science of would certainly look like magic at first.
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* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''': ???
* '''Enforced''': ???
* '''Lampshaded''': ???
* '''Averted''': ???
* '''Enforced''': ???
* '''Lampshaded''': ???
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* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
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** Some fanciful elements are revealed to actually be the product of science and some are genuinely magical.
** It becomes ambiguous whether or not something is scientific or magical in nature, with various dropped hints supporting both possibilities.
* '''Averted''':???
Nothing seen as fanciful is given a logical explanation.
* '''Enforced''':???
"We're getting complaints that our show is too unrealistic. Maybe we can appease their criticisms by retroactively giving scientific explanations for the magical elements of the series."
* '''Lampshaded''':???"Gee, if it weren't for your sound observations, I probably never would've realized that this dragon was just a robot with a built-in flamethrower."
** Some fanciful elements are revealed to actually be the product of science and some are genuinely magical.
** It becomes ambiguous whether or not something is scientific or magical in nature, with various dropped hints supporting both possibilities.
* '''Averted''':
* '''Enforced''':
* '''Lampshaded''':
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* '''Parodied''': ???A stage magician insists that he has debunked the wizards whenever he manages something vaguely like their spells; the wizards ignore him and go on casting spells as convenient.
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* '''Exploited''': ???
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* '''Exploited''': ???'''Exploited''': A stage magician has show-downs with local shamans and comes off victorious. Then he shows how it's done to the people, to undercut their power.
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* '''Exaggerated''': ???
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* '''Exaggerated''': ???An entire high fantasy world is revealed as an elaborate live-action role-playing game with good special effects.
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'''Basic Trope''': A "magical" incident is retroactively explained as not being magic
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** Agnes finds that there is a secret passageway to the room where a "ghost" appeared, and it contains materials to fake the luminous glow.
** A character stands outside a home, plays a pipe, and summons three golden fish statues inside to him. They do vanish, but the detective deduces they were removed earlier by mundane means; the "summons" was to distract.
* '''Exaggerated''': ???
* '''Downplayed''':
** Baldwin says that a ghost told him where an accident occurred. Charlotte observes that he might have seen evidence earlier and [[DreamingTheTruth only put it together in his sleep]], [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane but this is not established as the truth]].
** Danilo, who had appeared as a fae and uncanny creature, magical by nature, is revealed as a merely human wizard, who obtained his magic by study.
* '''Justified''': ???
* '''Inverted''': DoingInTheScientist
* '''Subverted''': Eileen shows that the mirrors would reflected strange patterns that would have looked ghostly in the room. But when the windows that were the light sources are covered up, the strange lights still appear.
* '''Double Subverted''': Eileen was just mistaken about where the light came from.
* '''Parodied''': ???
* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''': ???
* '''Enforced''': ???
* '''Lampshaded''': ???
* '''Invoked''': ???
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': ???
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???
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%%* '''Reconstructed''': ???
%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???
%%* '''Played For Drama''': ???
* '''Straight''':
** Agnes finds that there is a secret passageway to the room where a "ghost" appeared, and it contains materials to fake the luminous glow.
** A character stands outside a home, plays a pipe, and summons three golden fish statues inside to him. They do vanish, but the detective deduces they were removed earlier by mundane means; the "summons" was to distract.
* '''Exaggerated''': ???
* '''Downplayed''':
** Baldwin says that a ghost told him where an accident occurred. Charlotte observes that he might have seen evidence earlier and [[DreamingTheTruth only put it together in his sleep]], [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane but this is not established as the truth]].
** Danilo, who had appeared as a fae and uncanny creature, magical by nature, is revealed as a merely human wizard, who obtained his magic by study.
* '''Justified''': ???
* '''Inverted''': DoingInTheScientist
* '''Subverted''': Eileen shows that the mirrors would reflected strange patterns that would have looked ghostly in the room. But when the windows that were the light sources are covered up, the strange lights still appear.
* '''Double Subverted''': Eileen was just mistaken about where the light came from.
* '''Parodied''': ???
* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''': ???
* '''Enforced''': ???
* '''Lampshaded''': ???
* '''Invoked''': ???
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': ???
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???
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%%* '''Played For Drama''': ???
